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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Publication date
November 11, 2014
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781478983064
ISBN-10
147898306X
Availability§
Publication Cancelled
Original list price
$40.00
Other format details
audio
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here--with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work--essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," excerpts from his novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King, and legendary stories like "The Depressed Person." Wallace's explorations of morality, self-consciousness, addiction, sports, love, and the many other subjects that occupied him are represented here in both fiction and nonfiction. Collected for the first time are Wallace's first published story, "The View from Planet Trillaphon as Seen In Relation to the Bad Thing" and a selection of his work as a writing instructor, including reading lists, grammar guides, and general guidelines for his students. A dozen writers and critics, including Hari Kunzru, Anne Fadiman, and Nam Le, add afterwords to favorite pieces, expanding our appreciation of the unique pleasures of Wallace's writing. The result is an astonishing volume that shows the breadth and range of "one of America's most daring and talented writers" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) whose work was full of humor, insight, and beauty.
Editions
Hardcover
from Little Brown & Co (November 11, 2014)
9780316182393 | details & prices | 963 pages | 6.75 × 9.75 × 2.25 in. | 2.88 lbs | List price $35.00
Paperback
from Back Bay Books (December 1, 2015)
9780316182409 | details & prices | 963 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.75 in. | 2.15 lbs | List price $24.99
This edition also contains The David Foster Wallace Reader
This edition also contains The David Foster Wallace Reader
With Karen Jacobsen |
Reprint edition from Childrens Pr (January 1, 1987); titled "Health"
9780516416229 | details & prices | List price $3.95
This edition also contains Health, The David Foster Wallace Reader
This edition also contains Health, The David Foster Wallace Reader
CD/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
Unabridged edition from Hachette Audio (November 11, 2014)
9781478983064 | details & prices | List price $40.00
About: Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace?
About: Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace?
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